Suharto Quotes

Tinkers may work, quacks may prescribe, and demagogues may deceive, but I declare to you that there is no remedy for us ... but in adhering to the Constitution.

Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people. They fix, too, for the people the principles of their political creed.

Law should rule over rulers, and not rulers over the law

We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.

How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical majority?

The least we can do is to respect the Constitution because that's the foundation on which our republic is built. If you give the Constitution the go-by, your republic will be under stress.

I believe the Constitution matters: that it's not just a few pieces of paper.

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.

I have sworn to the nation to govern it under a constitutional system. But if, through the vices of its organization or the passions of its agents, it wants to convert itself into an instrument of anarchy, the nation itself in use of its sovereign rights will give a new representation, and I will be the first to invoke it.

The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace.

Your [the American] constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Constitutional democracy is a Western idea.

The Constitution reminds us that the government that produces free people is one of divided power.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.

Aware of the tendency of power to degenerate into abuse, the worthies of our country have secured its independence by the establishment of a Constitution and form of government for our nation, calculated to prevent as well as to correct abuse

The word SECURITY is the first and last chapter of the constitution of France.

When parties become subversive of the ends for which they are established, or incapable of restoring the government to the true principles of the Constitution, it is the right and duty of the people to dissolve the political bands by which they may have been connected therewith, and to organize new parties upon such principles and with such views as the circumstances and exigencies of the nation may demand

A constitution is made of a spirit, institutions, and a practice.

As prime minister of Iraq, I am required to act in accordance with the Constitution to protect all of the Iraqi people and to keep our country united.

Our system of government works best when there are checks and balances led by independent entities that are empowered to conduct fair and rigorous oversight. These are the same principles enshrined in the founding document of our country - our Constitution.